Media trying hard to kill the Muslim angle
Posted November 6th, 2009 at 12:48 AM by Jon HamAllapundit, who has been the best source of info on this all evening, makes this point:
So here’s where we are right now, near 11 p.m. ET. This guy raged about Muslims standing up to aggressors, praised suicide bombers, and the lead theory in the media is … PTSD? For a guy who’s … never been deployed?
To see to what ends a major news outlet will go to be politically correct, check out Patterico’s account of how The Los Angeles Times has “covered” this story:
But the fact that we don’t know his motivations yet with crystal clarity is no excuse for burying the facts I have just related to you. As we try to figure out what’s going on, those facts matter. If you read Hot Air (or this site) you’re learning those facts. If you read the L.A. Times, they are being hidden from you.
And it’s quite clear why: political correctness. The L.A. Times will bury this as long as they can — probably until they’re embarrassed into revealing it due to its clear relevance. They will applaud themselves for being sober and cautious — something they would never do if the shooter were an aficionado of Rush Limbaugh instead of Allah and anti-American rants.
And so, a large news organization pats itself on the back for its correct beliefs — as its readers have no idea what’s going on.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:07 am
As someone who grew up in the military and who therefore understands why the military makes the decisions it makes, please allow me to make the following very un-PC observation:
I am now a hell of a lot more concerned about being Muslims in the military than I ever was about there being gays in the military.
While there have certainly been instances where a gay serviceman became unbalanced (notably, the Clayton Hartwig incident aboard the USS Iowa in which 47 sailors, including Hartwig himself, were killed when he allegedly sabotaged a gun), the vast majority of gay men and women who have served in the US military have done so without killing any of their fellow servicemen.
And while the same is true for Muslim men and women who have served (or are serving) in the US military, there is one important point: Their religion specifically calls for the destruction of infidels. So now we have the problem of whether they can be trusted not to become a “born-again Muslim” and go nuts on a base where no one is expecting to be attacked — or whether we can trust a pilot who happens to be Muslim not to take his fighter jet or bomber and use it to attack an American city or industrial facility.
I fully expect that within the US military, the levels of awareness and wariness among servicemen regarding their fellow servicemen who are Muslims just ratcheted up by several notches.
The media, of course, should be ashamed for trying to bury things that are facts because of political correctness.
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